Bernstein polynomials, Bergman kernels and toric Kähler varieties (Q1027137)

The author first observes that the classical Bernstein polynomials \[ B_{N}(f)(x)=\sum_{j=0}^{N}\binom{N}{j}f\left( \frac{j}{N}\right) x^{j}(1-x)^{N-j} \] of a smooth function \(f\in C^{\infty}([0,1])\) and their asymptotic expansion \[ B_{N}(f)(x)\sim\sum_{\mu=0}^{\infty}L_{\mu}f(x)N^{-\mu} \] (where \(L_{\mu}=L_{\mu}\left( x,\frac{\text{d}}{\text{d} x}\right) \) are certain polynomial differential operators), are closely related to the Bergman-Szegö kernels for the Fubini-Study metric on the \(N\)-th powers \(\mathcal{O}(N)\) of the hyperplane line bundle \(\mathcal{O} (1)\rightarrow\mathbb{CP}^{1}\). This holds also for functions \(f\) of \(m\) variables over the cube, with \(\mathbb{CP}^{1}\) replaced by \(\mathbb{CP}^{m}\). The paper generalizes this picture to a toric projective Kähler variety \(M\) and a Delzant polytope \(P\). Generalized Bernstein polynomial approximations \(B_{h^{N}}\) are defined and studied for \(f\in C(P)\), with respect to a Hermitian metric \(h\) on a line bundle \(L\rightarrow M\). A generalization of the asymptotic expansion of Bernstein polynomials is proved, as well as an asymptotic expansion for Dedekind-Riemann sums.